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Entry: The Relativist Roots of Libertarianism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_relativist_roots_of_libertarianism#25542 Post contents: David, I realize there are variations. Rothbard had his view. Rand, though not a self-described libertarian, also had a similar view as to the threshold required for force and the morality of everyday life. What's missing from Rothbard's and most libertarians view--it seems to me--is a proper account of youth, the mentally ill, the incompetent, and other folks who depend upon good habituation from the laws in order to develop into productive citizens, let alone virtuous ones. Furermore, it seems to me that in a country with free movement, local villages and towns are more akin to the voluntarily associated private communities envisioned by Rothbard. To call a fine from a city ordinance against being "drunk and disorderly" "Force" or "Violence" when it's easy enough to pack up and move one town over is a bit of violence towards the natural meaning and pictures creates by those words. Sent at: 2008 07 06